Thread: Ended Need a Sony 505 or 700 Reader. Will pay $165
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Old 10-13-2009, 04:36 PM   #15
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Device: PRS-505
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Originally Posted by luvshihtzu View Post
Guess I am changing my mind about the Sony and am looking into the Astak for $199 on their site.
Thought this video on You Tube was quite interesting regarding the page turn speed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQPv9WGx__A&feature=fvw
What Sony Doesn't Want You to Know About their eReader
I've seen that video, but I must say that it isn't representative at all of PDF performance on the PRS-505. In fact, I have switched to formatting all my books in PDF for personal use since I love the formatting/layout benefits of using PDF (ie proper full page justification with hyphenation, dropcaps, easy headers, footers, equations and graphics using any basic wordprocessor). The page turns are almost as fast as LRF files.

I have also tried regular A4 formatted PDFs and again, the page turn isn't that bad at all. I'm sure there might be a few PDFs that behave as in the video (and it is stated in the comments too), but most of them behave fine. A lot of folk here read PDF books on their PRS-505.
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